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- Reasons Promoting an Inclusion Accountability System
- For an accurate picture of education.
- To make fair comparisons.
- To meet legal requirements.
- To avoid unintended effects.
- To promote higher expectations.
- To benefit from reforms.
- What is Educational Accountability?
- Definition: A systematic means of assuring those inside and outside the educational system that schools are moving in desired directions.
- Layers of accountability:
- Classroom accountability
- School building accountability
- School district accountability
- State level accountability
- Assessment
- Definition: The process of measuring learning against a set of standards.
- Functions of assessment:
- Accountability
- Instructional Improvement
- Program Evaluation
- Student Diagnosis
- High School Graduation
- What is the Relationship Between Accountability and Assessment?
- Assessment and accountability results show how students are doing against a set of learning goals or standards.
- What Does This Have to Do With Me?
- State or school district's test results
- What Makes Up Accountability Systems?
- Two kinds of accountability:
- System accountability
- Student accountability
- Dimensions of accountability systems:
- Target of accountability
- Consequences of accountability
- Information used to determine accountability
- Instruments used to collect student performance data
- Standard
- The most common consequences for systems:
- School performance reporting
- School warnings, probation, or watch
- School accreditation
- School takeover
- School monetary rewards or exemptions from regulations
- School awards or recognition
- High school skill warrantees, where schools guarantee to re-educate students if employers or post-secondary institutions determine they do not have the needed basic skills for success
- State Accountability Systems
- Types of information used in state accountability systems:
- Student test scores
- Dropout rate
- Attendance rate
- Instruments used to collect information
- Performance standards
- School indexes
- Assumptions About Including Students with Disabilities in Accountability and Assessment Systems
- Assumption 1: All Students Can Learn.
- Assumption 2: Schools Are Responsible for the Learning of All Children.
- Conclusion
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